{"id":1947,"date":"2018-04-08T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:40:11","slug":"boys-break-their-piggy-bank-for-st-martin-book-fair-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2018\/04\/08\/boys-break-their-piggy-bank-for-st-martin-book-fair-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys break their piggy bank for St. Martin Book Fair 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MARIGOT\/GREAT BAY<\/strong> (April 8, 2018)\u2014What better way to announce the date of St. Martin Book Fair 2018? Out of the mouths and actions of babes! First grader Timothy (in photo) and his baby brother Joshua heard on SOS radio 95.9 FM, \u201cabout the financial difficulty that the Book Fair Committee, BFC, is facing at this recovery period in St. Martin,\u201d said Shujah Reiph, the literary festival coordinator. The boys \u201casked their mother to break their piggy bank and give their savings toward the organizing of the 16th annual St. Martin Book Fair,\u201d said Shujah (in photo). About three years before this March goodwill contribution, Shujah had spoken to an early stimulation class on the importance of reading. Unbeknown to Shujah, Timothy was a pupil in the class and went on to develop a love for reading. When Timothy and his brother were brought by their mom to meet Shujah last March, Timothy told the book fair coordinator: \u201cYou motivated me to read and I don\u2019t want the book fair to stop.\u201d \u201cThe BFC is thankful to Timothy and Joshua for their heart-warming gesture,\u201d said Shujah. In photo: Shujah and Timothy met again at SOS radio\u2019s Lazy Bay fair of \u201cMade in St. Martin\/St. Maarten\u201d foods, books, and arts and crafts (3.31.18). As a thank you gift to Timothy and Joshua, Shujah presented Timothy with the newest published-in-St. Martin storybook, <em>Ti Koko and Kush<\/em> <em>Kush<\/em> by Virgin Islands author Dr. Patricia G. Turnbull. And the date of this year\u2019s St. Martin Book Fair? The island-wide \u201cbook fair for the entire family\u201d will take place on June 1 \u2013 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1948 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"joshua received storybook from shujah_2018\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018-500x667.jpg 500w, http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/joshua-received-storybook-from-shujah_2018.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(CLF photo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARIGOT\/GREAT BAY (April 8, 2018)\u2014What better way to announce the date of St. Martin Book Fair 2018? Out of the mouths and actions of babes! First grader Timothy (in photo) and his baby brother Joshua heard on SOS radio 95.9 FM, \u201cabout the financial difficulty that the Book Fair Committee, BFC, is facing at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-fair-news","category-news-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}